Today, our real challenge is that we cannot abide or continue in His Word if we have not learned His Word. We learn of Yeshua through discipleship. Yeshua told His Disciples to follow Him. They heard what He taught and saw the miracles, signs, and wonders. Then Yeshua sent them out and they performed miracles, signs, and wonders as a result of thei…

YeHoVaH's display of Power and Authority over nature, the elements, and the resources of Egypt may appear to the denominational disciples, or the un-discipled, to be singularly targeted and focused on Pharaoh and the Egyptians. However, a closer look into what is written reveals that YeHoVaH is setting the stage, and laying the groundwork, for the …

YeHoVaH desires for every last one of us to be successful in our faith walk. When you begin to walk with the Master, it puts space between you and people who are not willing to walk with the Master the way that He desires. John is trying to communicate to us that the condemnation is because light has come into the world and men love darkness rather…

YeHoVaH had the power and authority to destroy Pharaoh the first day He sent Moses and Aaron to instruct Pharaoh to let go His firstborn son, the Children of Israel. Pharaoh's continual refusal and hardening of his own heart, in addition to YeHoVaH hardening Pharaoh's heart, set the stage for the demonstration of YeHoVaH's patience, grace, and merc…

While Yeshua was teaching in the Temple Court, the Scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery. They said unto Him, “Master this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the Law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what sayest thou?” They were tempting Him that they might have reason to accuse Him. B…

Pharaoh's hardened heart caused him to continually refuse to listen to Moses and Aaron's request to let the Children of Israel leave Egypt to serve YeHoVaH. As a consequence of Pharaoh not listening to YeHoVaH's servants, Moses and Aaron, YeHoVaH turns His focus to Egypt's economy. Pharaoh's repeated rejection of YeHoVaH's single command of letting…

We continue with John's testimony of what he saw and experienced as a follower of Messiah. John introduced us to the Word, tells us that the Word was Elohim, the Word was in the beginning, and then John tells us that the Word manifested itself in the human form of the Messiah Yeshua. John indicates, by capitalizing the word “Prophet”, that Yeshua i…

Miracle after miracle performed by Moses and Aaron did little to cause or convince Pharaoh to release the Children of Israel so they could go and serve YeHoVaH. Pharaoh's heart was hardened to the point that he would not listen to the council of those around him. Pharaoh would not relent even when they described the miracles being performed by Mose…

Amongst themselves, the people acknowledged the plot of the religious leaders as Yeshua was speaking at the Feast. Some were perplexed because they knew the rulers’ intents, but Yeshua was speaking openly. Some wondered if the rulers had finally accepted Yeshua to be the Messiah. Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their bre…

The miracle of turning the waters of Egypt to blood, performed by Moses to demonstrate the power of YeHoVaH to Pharaoh, his magician's, sorcerers, and wise men, does not persuade Pharaoh to let the Children of Israel go. Instead, Pharaoh hardened his heart. The back and forth with Pharaoh and Moses, in actuality, was a back and forth between Pharao…

This teaching addresses several issues related to Yeshua and the keeping of the Law. Did Yeshua keep the Law of YeHoVaH or was He a lawbreaker? Were the Pharisees and Sadducees keeping the Law of YeHoVaH or some other law? Was there a difference between the law of the Pharisees and the law of the Sadducees? Did the people of Yeshua’s day observe th…

Moses, as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron, as Moses' prophet, were instructed by YeHoVaH to perform miracles before Pharaoh. The miracles demonstrated the power of the Most High in the sight of Pharaoh, his magician's, sorcerers, and wise men. Instead of yielding to the power of the Most High, performed through Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh's heart became uny…

In this portion of John, we see that Yeshua knew the world hated Him and that His brothers were a part of that world that hated Him. At the Feast celebrations, no man spoke openly of Him for fear of the religious leaders. The religious leaders had made open threats about killing Yeshua and they threatened to kick anyone who acknowledged Yeshua out …

Egypt was a land where its society and people worshiped many gods and was ruled by a king who surrounded himself with magicians, sorcerers, and wise men. It was to this land that YeHoVaH designated Moses as a god and his brother Aaron a prophet. If in fact Pharaoh, king of Egypt, was considered to be a god, as stated by many, YeHoVaH elevated Moses…

We pointed out last week that Messiah, the Word, became flesh. When He says eat of my flesh and drink of my blood, He's speaking to them words that are Spirit, but they are hearing His words in the natural. When you eat of His Word, consume His Word, you're eating His body and drinking His blood. He dwells in you because you are consuming His Word!…

The back-and-forth saga between Moses, Pharaoh, YeHoVaH, and the Children of Israel is interrupted by Moses reflecting on his family tree. Moses focuses on Israel's first, second, and third sons born of Leah, the older sister of Rachel, Israel's favorite wife. What are Moses' reasons for only focusing on three of Israel and Leah's sons and not the …

From the time of Moses up until the time of Yeshua, the people of Israel were looking for the one that Moses and the Prophets spoke about. This Prophet, the Almighty was going to send, the Children of Israel must Shema! Yeshua spent the bulk of His Ministry speaking to people who supposedly had the Word, but were following the traditions they had b…

Afflicted, heavily burdened, and realizing they are in trouble, the Officers of the Children of Israel direct their grievances toward Moses and Aaron. Then Moses and Aaron return to YeHoVaH to ask why He had brought trouble on the people. Previously, YeHoVaH had revealed to Moses what He was going to do. However, YeHoVaH had not revealed to Moses h…

When Yeshua found out that the people were planning to try to force Him to be King, He departed and went into the mountain. Sometimes you have to get away from those who have an agenda for you that is contrary to your agenda. It's dangerous if you don't have an agenda from YeHoVaH because you will find yourself being manipulated to fulfill somebody…

The elders of Israel believed, bowed their heads, and worshipped upon hearing the news brought to them by Moses and Aaron. Truly, YeHoVaH had looked upon their afflictions! Moses and Aaron must now deliver YeHoVaH's message to Pharaoh; a message that will not be well received. This message would create hostility between the Children of Israel, of t…

It is evident in Scripture that 5,000 men were fed, but there was also an unnumbered amount of women and children present for this miracle as recorded by John. From the dialog recorded between Yeshua and Andrew, we see that Yeshua knew he was about to perform a miracle amongst His Disciples in the presence of the multitude. Matthew, Mark, and Luke …

After Moses' reluctance and resistance to return to Egypt had invoked YeHoVaH's anger, Moses prepares to return to Egypt. Moses has finally accepted the assignment from YeHoVaH to deliver the message to Pharaoh, "Let Israel, YeHoVaH's firstborn, GO!" On his way to Egypt to do YeHoVaH's bidding, Moses is unaware that YeHoVaH plans to take his life. …

In this passage, Yeshua establishes His defense of who He is based on the testimonies of five distinct and valid sources. John the Baptist Yeshua’s own works His Father, YeHoVaH The Scriptures Moses Yeshua spoke of John as a witness, but spoke of His works given to Him by Father as a greater witness than John’s testimony. Our works should bear witn…

In last week's Teaching, we discussed the implications of Moses asking YeHoVaH to state who He is. Exodus 3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? The conversation betw…

In the Bible, there are times when Yeshua is referred to as Son; there are times when Yeshua is looked at as Elohim. In this passage of John Chapter 5, Yeshua mentions Father ten times. Yeshua makes it clear that the work He is doing is not independent of His and our Father YeHoVaH. There are people today who see the work of Yeshua/Jesus as indepen…

The Name of God is a very controversial subject for many in the Messianic, Messianic Jewish, and Hebrew Roots communities. While some insist we don't know the Name or His Name should not be used, others insist on not only saying the Name of God, but also demand His Name should be pronounced a certain way. The pronunciation and use of God's Name is …

YeHoVaH’s Laws are given by YeHoVaH; His Laws are in the Bible. Pharisee laws are contained in their writings, such as the Talmud. There are also the laws of the Sadducees, that are contained in their writings. When Yeshua said, “Beware of the leaven …”, He was speaking of the leaven of the teachings. Yeshua also said, “Beware of the leaven of Hero…

As the adopted son of the Egyptian Pharaoh's daughter, Moses was nursed and raised by his Hebrew mother. After Moses was weaned, he was delivered to Pharaoh's daughter's house. Moses grew up knowing he was Hebrew, even though he had an Egyptian name, and was raised in an Egyptian household by an Egyptian woman. Moses' Hebrew brothers and sisters we…

Even though John reveals to us that the people were looking for Messiah, for Elijah, and for the Prophet; Yeshua testified that a prophet had no honor in his own country. Mark Twain aptly said, “Familiarity breeds contempt.” This means when you have a lot of knowledge about a person, you tend to lose respect for that person especially when they mov…

This week we will look at the chronology of Moses' birth in proximity to the Children of Israel's stay in Egypt. When we align Moses' birth with the prophecy given to Abraham, there are some interesting challenges to determining how long the Children of Israel were in Egypt when Moses was born. Additionally, we are presented with more questions tha…

The first revival recorded in the Bible happened in the land of Samaria. After receiving revelations from Yeshua, the woman went into the city and gave her testimony. She told the people to come see a man who told me about myself. The people came to see Yeshua and besought Him that He would tarry with them. He had a two day Revival! The people said…

The writing of Moses known as Exodus, the second book of the Torah, a.k.a. the Law, a.k.a. the Commandments of God, opens by chronicling the Children of Israel who came into Egypt during the famine. Israel, the deceased father of the Children of Israel, has been carried back into the land of Canaan to be buried in the cave of Machpelah. Before thei…

Today we are going to talk about True Worshippers. When Yeshua tells the Samaritan woman her life history, which she hasn’t shared with Him, she perceives that Yeshua is a Prophet and the conversation transitions from a natural to a religious conversation. When the woman mentioned that the Samaritans did not worship in Jerusalem, the location of th…

The writings of Moses, given to him by YeHoVaH, present a continual journey from creation, to the deliverance of the Children of Israel out of Egypt, and the giving of the Torah, a.k.a. the Law, a.k.a. the Commandments of God. This week for Searching the Scriptures, we make the transition from the book of Moses known as Genesis into Exodus also kno…

The Teaching today is about Jacob's Well and the Samaritans, with the subtopic, A Visitation with Yeshua. During the time of Yeshua, there were three regional groups: Galilee, Samaria, and Judea; the people were identified by their region. Samaria was located in the center of Israel and was the land given to Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph…

Joseph’s character had been tested and proven by YeHoVaH through the many trials Joseph had gone through in preparation for making him a great man in the world. After the death and burial of Israel, his father, the brothers of Joseph became concerned that Joseph would remember their hatred, jealousy, and evil committed against him and pay them back…

Mankind's existence in the midst of religious institutions has caused people to inadvertently question whether or not Messiah is actually coming back. Some who say that they are Believers are certainly not living as if He is coming back today. The Bible tells us that we are to watch and pray. We are to always be mindful of the coming return of Mess…

After receiving the good news that his son Joseph is alive, Israel moves his family to Egypt.  Near the end of his life, Israel adopts and blesses Joseph’s two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh.  Israel prophesies their future to them, then prophesies the future of his other 12 sons who are identified as the 12 tribes of Israel. Israel had spent the last …

Chapter 3 Part 3 resumes the conversation between Yeshua and Nicodemus, the Pharisee and teacher of the Children of Israel. Yeshua shares with Nicodemus indisputable knowledge that had already been written through the Prophets about being born again. When we are born again, it is solely the work of the Almighty, but it is the work of the Word. How …

This week we continue in Genesis 49 where Israel has called his sons together and is speaking to them about their future and their posterity.  Last week, we heard the pronouncements over Rueben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah.  Join Arthur as Israel continues to speak prophetically to his sons and reveals the future of their posterity beyond their stay, c…

In this portion of Chapter 3, we continue with the conversation between Nicodemus and Yeshua. Nicodemus says that no man can do the works and miracles that Yeshua did if YeHoVaH wasn't with Him. Yeshua explains that you must be born again. Nicodemus wants to know how can a man be born when he is old? Yeshua responds by saying, “You are a teacher, a…

In this portion of Torah, Genesis 49 opens with Israel calling his sons together to tell them what is going to happen in the future concerning them and their posterity. In the previous Chapter, he speaks to Joseph, adopts Joseph’s two sons, and speaks over their lives.  Those words that Israel spoke to Ephraim and Manasseh are still being used toda…

Apostle John is the only one of the Disciples that mentions Nicodemus. Apostle John is the only one of the Disciples that deals with the subject of being born again that Yeshua discussed with Nicodemus. Being born again means to be born of Elohim or born from above. Being born again is a supernatural occurrence that takes place. There is an interna…

Israel approaches the end of his days, his sight fades, and he becomes ill.  Joseph gathers his sons and visits his father. It is during this bedside visit, thousands of years ago, that Israel establishes one of the most profound prophetic enactments that is still being carried out in the lives of Israelites to this day. Join Arthur as Israel recou…

This passage in John Chapter 2 picks up when the Passover is at hand and many are headed to Jerusalem to celebrate. At this particular time in history, Jerusalem was the place where YeHoVaH’s people gathered for the Feasts. Jerusalem was in the land of Judea. During the time in Jerusalem, many believed in His name, when they saw the miracles Yeshua…

Join Arthur as he illustrates how Joseph, the Lord of Egypt, was a shrewd but wise businessman. Even though Joseph gathered all the money found in Egypt and Canaan, all the of the Egyptian’s livestock, land and reduced them to servitude, the Egyptian‘s acknowledged Joseph not only as the Lord of the land but as their Savior. Follow Arthur on this i…

At the time of John Chapter 2, Yeshua had five Disciples following Him that attended the wedding in Cana where Yeshua turned the water into wine. Through this event, we can see clearly how Yeshua taught in two ways. He taught by what He said, and by what He did. John writes that this first miracle manifested Yeshua’s glory and His Disciples believe…

After two years of famine, with five more years to go, Joseph convinces his brothers to bring Israel and all his family to Egypt. Upon their arrival in Egypt, Joseph prepares his father, Israel, and several of his brothers to meet with Pharaoh. Joseph meticulously instructs them how to answer Pharaoh’s questions. Their responses to Pharaoh are a pa…

In the context of this passage, when John the Baptist says, “Behold the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world”; John is speaking of Messiah as our atoning sacrifice. Passover was not a sacrifice for sin; the sacrifice for sin was Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. As our High Priest, after His crucifixion, Yeshua presented His own blood in the T…

After a couple of trips to Egypt to purchase food and return to the land of Canaan, Israel was informed by his sons that Joseph was not only alive, but was lord of Egypt, and had extended to him and all his household an invitation to come to Egypt. This pilgrimage of Israel and all his children going to Egypt would set the stage for the development…